Inventions & Sinfonias (BWV 772-801) (with fingerings) (Piano)

J S Bach Inventions & Sinfonias (BWV 772-801) (with fingerings) (Piano)

The Inventions and Sinfonias, contemporaneous with the first part of the Well-Tempered Clavier, even more than the latter indicate clearly that keyboard instruction in Bach’s day was at the same time instruction in composition.

The musical text of the present edition follows Bach’s fair copy of 1723 and includes in the Appendix ornamented versions from manuscripts from Bach’s circle.

Selected piano pieces from Bärenreiter’s Urtext catalogue are published with fingerings.  (The well-known Bärenreiter Urtext editions without fingerings remain in print as before).

These new volumes combine the definitive Urtext from the New Complete Editions with tried and tested fingerings from well-known pianists and teachers.  They also contain notes on interpretation.

Renate Kretschmar-Fischer is one of the outstanding and most successful piano teachers of our times.  She has worked with Arthur Schnabel, Monique Haas, Georges Enescu, Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky.  She belongs to the honorary board of trustees of the World Federation of Chopin Societies and has been a jury member at many national and international competitions.

- Urtext of the New Bach Edition

- With fingerings by Renate Kretschmar-Fischer